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200 University Street
Seattle, WA, USA 98101
Benaroya Hall is the home of the Seattle Symphony, in Downtown Seattle, Washington, USA. It features two auditoriums, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, a 2500 seat performance venue as well as the Nordstrom Recital Hall which seats roughly 500.
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| Other Info | Seattle Arts & Lectures presents Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael Chabon March 9 at Benaroya Hall. Chabon's talk is entitled, "I was Edgar Allan Poe! A true story of imaginary reincarnation, literary influence, and pathetically belated revenge."
Michael Chabon
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"[Chabon] gives us books about sports, super-heroes, and pipe-smoking sleuths--and yet the stories he writes still revolve around the workings of the human heart. He makes us reconsider the line between high and low culture, and he does so without a trace of literary condescension. He reminds us that fiction is supposed to be fun. This is how Michael Chabon blows our minds, and that's why we love his work."
--W. Todd Kaneko
From his first novel, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, published in 1988 when he was just 25, to The Wonder Boys, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), two collections of short stories, two essay collections, a young adult novel (Summerland), a novella (The Final Solution) and his most recent novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union, Chabon has simultaneously entertained us, literarily amazed us, and blown our academic minds.
A lover of comics and an avid reader of fantasy fiction, a school assignment at the age of ten--to write a short story involving Sherlock Holmes--convinced Chabon that he wanted to be a writer. Chabon incorporates the best parts of genre fiction with the dexterous wordplay, cultural impact, and emotional force of what the academy considers "high" art. Influenced by pulp/genre writers Raymond Chandler, Ursula K. Le Guin, Frank Herbert, Ray Bradbury, and what he calls "borderland" writers--writers "who can dwell between worlds"--John Crowley, Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen Millhauser, and Thomas Pynchon, to name a few--he sets up classic genre constructions and layers on stories of exile and belonging, identity, nationality, freedom, and destiny, then mixes them up with sports mythologies, folklore, and the workings of the human heart. Longing and regret are constant themes, but with a nod to Yiddish humor he keeps the bleak and funny in balance.
Born in Washington, D.C. in 1963, Chabon studied at Carnegie Mellon and received an M.F.A. at UC Irvine. He lives with his wife, the novelist Ayelet Waldman, and their four children in Berkeley, California. |
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